>> good afternoon. i am like. i like to welcome everyone to this meeting commencing at 1:38 p.m. president crowley: present. vice president vietor: here. commissioner caen may bee late and commissioner moran is excused for this meeting. president crowley: if there are

no errors or omissions, a motion to accept the minutes of september 14, 2010. and the questions? -- any questions? all those in favor? the ayes have this. >> we have one speaker card for general public -- we now have three speaker cards for general public comment. the first card submitted was by mr. dacosta. commissioner caen: -- president crowley: the floor is yours, sir. >> my name is francisco dacosta. i want to talk about a few things. the first topic that interests me is clean water. the more i read about it and the

more i attended the meetings and the more i reviewed the documents, i see that there is a real practical need of how to address waste of clean water, starting with city hall. it is not addressed directly. it is addressed indirectly through various other projects. but if we really want to follow empirical data, then we should have in the year 2010 the ability to monitor how much water is contained in our reservoirs, how much water is pumped into them, and how much water is consumed. and we cannot get those figures

really. we get them in a gentle way -- a jangled way. over the years, we have had some advocates. most of them was stopped coming over here because of exactly what i am saying. we come some of us, at the very few of us left, who have been monitoring the clean water projects for a long time. there are very few commissioners who have monitored them for as long as we have monitored them. and it is good that sometimes, you know, past general managers or people who have had some deep working experiences come back on the commission.

and it is good that we have had the opportunity for others who worked once for the water department to come back and share their experiences. but what we, the constituents, are paying attention to right now is how best to utilize every gallon of water, clean water. especially had ceci -- hetch hetche water. those are my comments. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please.

>> i am sorry. that is on another item. no more speakers on this one. the next item is communication. the commissioners the chair received a revised version of the ledger summary, which was updated as of this morning -- the letter summary, which was updated as of this morning. there were e-mails that came in late morning, and i brought copies just in case if you have not had time to check them on line. president crowley: colleagues? vice president vietor: i have not had a chance to look. can you summarize? i guess they are all right here. >> the were primarily the letters regarding the sharp mark item on the agenda for today. there were all substantially the same, asking the commissioner to either not go forward or delay

going forward with this project. vice president vietor: and we will have time later to address this under the agenda item. >> i expect there will be at least one public speaker who sent an e-mail who will be here. vice president vietor: thank you. commissioner ellis: one thing that has not made it on there yet is the discussion of bonding against hetchche revenues. >> we have scheduled it for the october meeting. commissioner ellis: i missed that. there were a couple of items for the delivery date was listed as ongoing and i am not sure what that means. >> in some cases it is not just

a question that gets answered. it is the continuing concern. we are trying to figure out ways to be showing that it would be back before us multiple times. commissioner moran: ok. there were two like that from a list of projects. >> the ones where they have responded on going because for acre-foot fort large landscapes, for conservation projects, and those things. what i have asked the staff to do is whenever they bring anything like that to the commission to start an ongoing mission -- an ongoing list that gets updated each time that say the range of things out there and the cost of those. each time you see a new one, you can add to the list and compare

to what was seen before. commissioner moran: the question about what the wisf program -- those have been answered. seeing as we are spending thousands of dollars an acre foot for pretty much anything we do, i had specifically asked for a list of conservation projects that came in at less than $2,000 an acre foot. >> right. but the next time you asked for those over that period we put all of them on a list and will have it before you each time we bring anything forward. you would have it available each time something comes up. we did not want to just shoot for under and over, because we're also getting questions about what is the opposite of that. commissioner moran: the first iteration of that? >> is supposed to be done at the

next meeting. commissioner moran: thank you. vice president vietor: i see at the october meeting that we are going to talk about environmental construction and compliance. i assume that is a continuation of the green contracting. >> at this point, it would seem to be able to get a quorum. we would be happy to get our next morning on the morning of october -- our next meeting on the morning of october 14. i was going to go back and look at that meeting, assuming we only have three commissioners and a limited time. there are some items of ongoing timeline that would benefit with a full complement of commissioners. i will focus that meeting on anything that needs to happen that day. i believe there is also don

pedro, a variety of things on going of interest that i will have to move to a meeting when we have five commissioners again. vice president vietor: that sounds fine with me. there is one other item on there, the cac report. they have been working on this land policy question. we did go on this tour of the laguna honda site. if we do not have the report, and i believe they're working on a resolution, could that defaulted index >> ok. -- could that be folded in? > >> ok. the next item is other commission business. the only identified item associated with this, the commissioners can propose new agenda items if they wish, are

the employee recognition and presentation of retirement certificates to two particularly outstanding and long serving mainstays of the sfpuc. the general manager has the certificates behind his chair and brief summaries of their careers he can highlight. >> good afternoon, commissioners. we have to of our longstanding employees that will be retiring. the first is jon loiacono, who has worked for the city for 37 years as a public engineer. he has a depth of knowledge. he started as a junior engineer in may 1973. from 75 through 84, he worked for the clean water program, and was part of the design of the award-winning oceanside plant. he became the head section manager for a team of

environmental engineers that started at the oceanside plant. a lot of work on that. the last decade, he was a division manager for a group of 35 engineers and technical support staff who planned many multi-million dollar projects including the sewer system improvement project. we would like to thank jon for his 37 years and wish him well in his retirement. i will read the next one and ask you both to come up. the other person who is leaving us is peter deocampo, who has been with the city for 28 years. he started at the airport and worked there for two years before coming to the puc. he is the senior clerk in our contract group. he assembled bid packages, consultant contracts, invoices, and a variety of things. the most interesting thing is what he plans on doing after

retirement, which included going to las vegas casinos, learning to dance, going to the philippines, bike, jog, and walk. he has been saving up a lot. it has been a pleasure working with you, peter, and i wish you success in all those endeavors as you retire. would you like to come up? [applause]

[applause] >> unless any commissioner has any additional agenda items to propose at this time, or anyone has a public comment on that item? >> commissioners, it is obviously a privilege to talk to

jon over the years. this man is a walking encyclopedia. so i have encouraged him that after his retirement he should attempt to write a book or something. believe me, when we deal with our peers and hour issues -- our issues in the byay, there are so many secrets that very few people know about them. this is one man that can help us now. i deal with students from universities where they make documents and then ask me questions. i would suggest that we engage

the students from our universities to come and learn about our system and then encourage our retirees to volunteer sometimes so they can share their experience. yesterday, i was in the park and i was listening to this professor from uc-berkeley who bring students here to talk about sfpuc and all of the politics, the bonding. i was really surprised that a professor from berkeley has taken it upon himself to share information like this, because as you know, commissioners, you do what you have to do, but what leads things to happen is politics. and our young people should know

about all the politicking that goes on and how sometimes if you pay attention to the maintenance of our infrastructure it pays good dividends, and if you do not pay attention to the maintenance of our infrastructure then we have rapid issues. jon is a great guy in all the time i have known him. it is really said that he is leaving, but i suppose you have to retire sometime. i am requesting that we tap into his experience, bring him back sometimes, though he may enjoy his retirement sometimes, and share his experience with the students. and i think he will say yes if you do it the right way. thank you very much. >> thank you, mr. dacosta.

>> next item is the report of the general manager. >> there is nothing listed because i have just a few short comments, a couple items of note. last friday, we had the groundbreaking for our pipeline at no. 5, a great success. saturday, several of you join us for the anniversary of the somalian -- sonolian temple. we had put out and rfp for the cca project. at the meeting a week and a half ago friday, lasco commissioners asked us to make sure we got a robust grouping of respondents. there are a couple of changes they asked us to make.

one relates to allowing people to bid on portions of it. the city policy has been to make sure it was bundled, and they could provide power and services altogether. they asked for us to allow us to be bid on separately. we are revising that rfp. a revised one will go out this friday. that will delay the responses until the first week of november, since we are not changing what they apply for, but they have a chance to take a look at that. it is all done with an eye towards trying to make sure that we have as many as possible respondents to the rpf. -- rfp. those are the only items i have unless there are questions. president crowley: thank you. i do want to say that i saw the press release because of a

standing invitation. i could not make it friday. it was very good press. i see tremendous organization for moving forward. nothing more needs to be said on the water temple. it was destined to be there. hopefully no more seismic activity. next item? >> the next item is the bosca update. mr jensen is present. -- bawsca update. >> we have an obligation to work with member agencies to plan the portion of water they get during a drought amongst themselves. the agreement we signed with each of those agencies determines how much water san francisco gets and how much we get in the aggregate. we have worked with staff

members approved by the city manager and water district general manager and corporate president to reach a consensus among them as to how they which to divide up the pie. -- how they wish to divide up the pie. there will be taking a plan to the governing bodies for adoption. if that is unanimous, we will mail you the result. if it is not unanimous, it is the bawsca board's responsibility. the groundbreaking for the tunnel was a great event. it was a great beginning. president crowley: finishing is better than starting some of these projects. >> if i retire before them, i will come back. lastly, mr. dacosta talked about

students and the importance of academia. yesterday, we got a request from a college i had never heard of before, and that is my failing, lake superior state university in michigan. they are interested in your system and issues about it. bringing the young people along is one of our duties, just like turning our employees. there is another one from michigan. president crowley: thank you, mr. jensen. commissioner moran: one of the things i lost track of was in going toward the allocation of the 2018 supply and limit -- supply limit, we talked about information that was going to go from you to staff. staff had to figure out whether

we had to gear up to do it from scratch or not. where does that currently set? >> i will share what our end of that is and mr. richard harington will describe what they're and is. commissioner moran: we had talked some time ago about bawsca getting puc staff information about the 2018. depending on what they are doing or not, that might necessitate us gearing up to do a fairly major effort of our own. i was wondering where that stood. >> we have worked with our agencies and provided some analyses. then we shared copies of a few samples of the results with mr.

harington and his staff and came forward with no consensus recommendation from those agencies. now it is in steve's court. >> i forgot to load the presentation on the computer, so i was working. we received those examples from the bawsca customers and subsequent to that took a shot at interim supply allocation to the customers, distributing the craft form. we found out talking about these opposing concepts, nobody said anything. we now have feedback and numbers out there. we did have a meeting about two weeks ago with the customers to get feedback on that. we are working now on producing a revised draft written about and get more feedback on with the anticipation we would bring that forward to you on november

9 with perhaps not a formal recommendation but to get any policy guides, and come back on december 14 for adoption prior to the december 31 deadline. commissioner moran: thank you. vice president vietor: i wanted to also follow up on the comment about these educational opportunities around our system and students. it seems to me with our almost former commissioner stepping into the assistant general manager of external affairs role, it might be a wonderful program to think about developing as some kind of focused educational program for students on our water system, our energy programs, our waste water system, and what that might look like. i am sure she has a full plate, but since she is not here i will delegate in someone's absence.

we could continue the dialogue. i really appreciate that. i think there is a lot of value to it. >> we have a variety of things going on now and part of it is to focus. we talked about the possibility of using the arts commission to present and how that can fit into educational programs. waste water does a variety of those already. we have even talked about should we buy a bus so it is easier to get kids to come. how do we do the best out reached? it is there. we are trying to bring that together. president crowley: any other public comments before we move on to the next item? >> cnet item is the consent calendar. all items listed under the consent calendar are considered routine by the public utilities commission and will be acted upon by a single vote of the commission. a -- staff recommendation to

approve amendment no. 2 to the water enterprise, water system improvement program 834b13 and authorize the general manager to execute the amendment. b -- approve modification # one to the water fis -- the water enterprise program wd-2561 to at installation of approximately 400 feet of eight-inch ductile iron man's, improve the work that includes sidewalks, curbs, and gutters on green street. commissioner caen -- ratify then

of emergency made by the general manager of the san francisco public utilities commission august 19, 2010 for immediate replacement of the existing sewer on polk street from bush street to pine street for the amount of $421,071. commissioner caen: do you -- president crowley: do you want to pull any items on the consent calendar? do you have any questions? vice president vietor: i do not. president crowley: all those in favor of moving nine a through c, signify by saying aye. >> we have no speaker cards on this item. president crowley: now we are on to regular business. >> item 10, presentation and discussion of a power rate et